Thu 30 Nov 2006
They’re Coming to Take You Away! Ha Ha!
Posted by Nick under Gaming Politics

The nerve of people to purposefully architect facts via skewed unscientific data to prove a completely non-credible and ridiculous belief simply astounds me… on a regular basis no less! Once again, the target is our beloved gaming industry by wackos that continue to think, as they always will, that games are essentially brainwashing our kids to become murders and violent criminals, despite a lack of evidence to support their claims.
Even worse, these so-called “studies” continue to make it to the mass news-media, where more people will be influenced to take it as fact, trusting that the media source would have done it’s due dilligence to report accurately and without bias.
This time Newsweek is the source of propagation for these claims, which are all based on a study funded by this foolish organization! (WARNING: You will be apalled and disgusted if you click the previous link).
Sorry for spoiling the ending, but I still highly recommend that you read the entire story as reported over at Dubious Quality. Direct links below..
- Dubious Quality: “The Stupid Train: All Aboard!”
- Dubious Quality: “A Little More” (follow-up to the above post)
- PlayNoEvil’s commentary on the commentary (Essentially where I discovered this article in the first place)
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December 9th, 2006 at 8:12 am[...] The wonder and amazement never ceases… At some part of my deep, dark psyche I actually hoped that maybe this stupid incredulous “study” that I talked about just a week or so ago would actually stop being considered newsworthy and thus just go away entirely. Then came today, while having my morning coffee (as opposed to my commute coffee, or my after-commute coffee, since after all, it IS the weekend) I discovered a featured article right on the front page at MSNBC.com! [...]


